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About Castledermot

Castledermot, Díseart Diarmada in Irish, is a town in County Kildare, 40 km north-east of Kilkenny. It stands on the M9, R418 and R448. The map gives it 1,889 buildings and 30 named streets, with 44 places named on them in 39 kinds, and 86 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 16th largest of the 54 settlements this site covers in County Kildare.

Where
40 km north-east of Kilkenny, 62 km from Dublin
Position
52.9119° N, 6.8368° W
Roads
M9, R418, R448, L4009, L4011 and L8095
Governed
Kildare County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
1,889 buildings, 30 streets, 44 named places in 39 kinds
A single-span stone bridge over the River Lerr in Castledermot, County Kildare
A single-span stone bridge over the River Lerr in Castledermot, County Kildare·Andrewmc, CC0 via Wikimedia Commons
Castledermot, County Kildare, Ireland
Castledermot, County Kildare, Ireland·Sarah777 at English Wikipedia, public domain via Wikimedia Commons

Castledermot in order

8 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1148 to 1982. That is not a history of Castledermot, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

11481982Baltinglass AbbeyColáiste Lorcáin
The twelfth century
  • 1148Baltinglass AbbeyHistoric churches · 9.2 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
  • 1179Moone AbbeyHistoric churches · 7.5 km from the centre
The thirteenth century
  • the 1210sCarlow CastleCastles · 11 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland, national monument of Ireland
The eighteenth century
The nineteenth century
The twentieth century

County Kildare since 1841

Every census of the county, which is the only way to see what happened to rural Ireland: the fall from the Famine runs for a century, and the recovery is recent.

247,77457,892114,48818412022

Source: Central Statistics Office, table F1001 'Population at Each Census', read through the PxStat API, read 2026-09-20.

What to see

Closest to the centre first, with how far each one is.

All 86 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M9, R418, R448, L4009, L4011 and L8095 running through Castledermot. 4 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

3 lines call at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

2 school or colleges on the map: Scoil Diarmada and Coláiste Lorcáin.

Questions people ask

Where is Castledermot?
In County Kildare, in the province of Leinster, 40 km north-east of Kilkenny and 62 km from Dublin, on the M9, R418 and R448.
How big is Castledermot?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,889 buildings, 30 named streets and 44 named places, which by building count makes it the 16th largest of the 54 settlements this site covers in County Kildare.
What is there to see in Castledermot?
86 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Romanesque Arch, Castledermot Playground and St John's Tower.
How do you get to Castledermot?
3 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by JJ Kavanagh and TFI Local Link Kildare South Dublin.
Has County Kildare grown or shrunk?
The census counted 114,488 people in the county in 1841 and 247,774 in 2022.
1,889
buildings on the model
30
named streets
44
named places
39
kinds of place

Buildings, streets, places, roads and position are OpenStreetMap, counted by this site rather than quoted from anywhere. Population, elevation, area and twinning are structured claims on Wikidata (item Q431523). County population is the Central Statistics Office. Journeys are the National Transport Authority’s published timetable. Every sentence on this page is written from those numbers; none of it is copied from a description of the place.

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